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Venafi Encryption Director 6 Named Finalist in Secure Computing Magazine Awards Europe 2011

Director 6 – which allows Enterprises to Eliminate Unquantified and Unmanaged Risk, Improve Security and Increase System Availability – Nominated for prestigious European award

Salt Lake City, Utah – March 14, 2011

Venafi, the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions, today announced that it has been nominated as a finalist in the Secure Computing Awards Europe 2011 for its product Venafi Encryption Director 6. Venafi is delighted to be nominated by the IT security industry’s leading publication as a finalist for this prestigious award, in the Best Security Management category. The SC Magazine Awards occurs annually and provides and evening of recognition and celebration of the best products in the secure computing industry. (more…)

Venafi Named Finalist in Info Security 2011 Global Product Excellence Awards

Enterprise Key and Certificate Management Leader Chosen as Policy Management Solution Finalist for Encryption Management Interoperability

Salt Lake City, Utah – January 4, 2011

Venafi, the inventor of and market leader in Enterprise Key and Certificate Management (EKCM) solutions, today announced that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading publication on security–related products, has named Venafi™ Encryption Director a finalist in the 2011 Global Product Excellence Awards for Policy Management. (more…)

Venafi Named “Cool Vendor” in Gartner “Data and Infrastructure Protection” Report

Venafi has been recognized by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor” in its “Cool Vendors in Data and Infrastructure Protection, 2010” report. The report reinforces the need for enterprises to automate the management of encryption certificates and keys in order to avoid system downtime and data breaches. Without an enterprise-class PKI management capability in place, organizations will continue to see high-profile outages occur with increasing frequency and cost.

Read the complete Gartner “Cool Vendor” report compliments of Venafi.

In the report, Gartner Research VP Eric Ouellet explains that, “Large and small enterprises routinely use X.509 certificates and symmetric encryption keys to ensure trust relationships among systems, applications and users. Certificates used for server and application identity services fall into the “unmanaged” category, which means that they require complete manual oversight of certificate issuer, system name, expiry date and other details to prevent service interruptions.”

He continues, “This can be a complex proposition when scaled up to hundreds of servers and applications owned by many different organizations within and enterprise. Many enterprises have attempted to formalize this process, using spreadsheets and the centralized registration o f all new X.509 certificate installations, but high-profile outages directly attributed to poor X.509 certificate management continue to occur.”

Venafi Encryption Director helps organizations solve the operational challenges that come from large deployments of SSL certificates and symmetric and private keys.

Venafi Awarded SC Magazine’s 2010 “Industry Innovator” Distinction

Venafi was recently recognized as the 2010 “Industry Innovator” in SC Magazine’s competitive Data Protection category. Selected for its unique approach to encryption management, the Venafi encryption management platform was selected from among a crowded playing field for its seamless ability to manage disparate encryption types and technologies—from one end of the enterprise to the other and on many applications and certificate authorities.

According to SC Magazine, “In simple terms, Venafi manages everyone’s encryption products in a single enterprise. While it may not be obvious to the casual observer, there is a lot of encryption within today’s enterprises and not all of it is the same.” This allows organizations to protect sensitive data while improving security and operational efficiency.”

The product is Venafi Encryption Director™, which offers a comprehensive, enterprise–wide encryption management platform that centralizes and automates the management of encryption assets—including keys, certificates and application configurations. Built on an extensible architecture, the holistic approach to encryption management in Director delivers improved data security, critical system uptime, operational efficiency and compliance readiness.

“Venafi hits both of our innovation targets head on,” writes SC Magazine. “First, the technology is novel and it serves a useful purpose in a unique way. From the business perspective, it cleverly leverages the challenge that keeps new players out of the encryption market: it’s very crowded. For Venafi, the more crowded the market, the better. Lots of players exacerbate the problem that Venafi solves.”

Read the complete SC Magazine article here.

Info Security Products Guide Names Venafi Winner of the 2009 Global Excellence Award for Best New Software Product

Venafi Encryption Director Simplifies Encryption Management Across Operating Systems, Infrastructure Environments

Salt Lake City, Utah – April 21, 2009

Venafi today announced that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading publication on security-related products and technologies, has named Venafi™ Encryption Director winner of the 2009 Global Product Excellence Customer Trust Award in the category of Best New Security Product in the software category. (more…)

Network World Names Venafi One of 10 IT Security Companies to Watch

Company Lessens “Administrative Headaches” Associated with Encryption Management

Salt Lake City, Utah – October 15, 2007

Venafi, a leading provider of systems management for encryption, today announced it has been named by Network World, Inc. as one of the top 10 IT security companies to watch. According to the October 15 edition of the magazine targeted at IT executives, the 3-year old company is “worth watching” because it “focuses on making encryption more accessible for enterprises by lessening its associated administrative headaches,” which in turn improves system uptime, compliance and data security. (more…)

Issued Patents

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued Venafi seven patents to date, including a competitive blocking patent that protects the company’s ability to manage multiple certificate authorities from a single management platform. Many additional patents have been approved and are pending issuance. The Venafi patent numbers are: 7,418,597; 7,568,095; 7,650,496; 7,650,497; 7,653,810; 7,698,549; 7,937,583.